PACid Technologies, LLC has revived its sole litigation campaign, which saw brief litigation in 2018 against Samsung and in 2019 against Thales (Gemalto). In a new Western District of Texas complaint, the plaintiff accuses Bank of America (1:23-cv-00251) of infringing six patents, four previously in suit, two issuing since late 2019, and all of them generally related to authenticating the user of a computing device. PACid targets the provision of software products (e.g., mobile apps) and servers that are compliant with authentication protocols supported by the FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance, including the FIDO Universal Authentication Framework (UAF), calling out the use of biometric authentication (e.g., fingerprint and facial recognition) in the new complaint.

Guy Fielder, inventor turned patent monetization professional, resigned from his reported CEO and CTO positions with Monument Patent Holdings LLC, the litigation management arm of Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC, at the end of December 2017. In doing so, he announced that he would “focus more on [his] inventions and prepare to make another run at creating a company with [his] patent portfolio”. That company is PACid Technologies, LLC, which this past week filed suit, accusing Samsung (2:18-cv-00133) of infringing two Fielder patents generally related to authenticating the user of a computing device. The accused products are Samsung devices that use biometrics in alleged compliance with “the authentication protocol adopted by the FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance, employing the FIDO Universal Authentication Framework (UAF)”, including certain Galaxy products that include “FIDO-ready applications” (e.g., Samsung Pass and/or PayPal).